Something to check out while you purchase your wine tasting tickets

The Accidental Connoisseur, by Lawrence Osborne, is an informative and slightly irreverent tour of all things wine. Osborne talks to everyone in the wine world, it seems, about all sorts of topics from local terroir to the globalization of the palate. While Osborne's research has been thoughtful and thorough, his tone in this book is very down-to-earth and accessible. While you are buying your tickets to the Friends' October 16th Wine Tasting, you can check it out. Or order it on-line by clicking this link (have your card and PIN handy): http://library.minlib.net/record=b2210108 . If someone else is borrowing it right now, you can order it from another Minuteman Library, and have it delivered to Dover for you to pick up.



My only disappointment in this very entertaining read was that I did not have the wines Osborne describes at hand: you will read his descriptions and want to taste along with him. Maybe some entrepreneur can package an Accidental Connoisseur kit: book and bottles, all together!